Other evidence showed similar effects on cows, chickens, water buffaloes, and horses.

After GM soy was introduced in Britain, allergies skyrocketed 50%. Earlier in America, a GM food supplement killed dozens. It left thousands more sick or disabled.

Monsanto's the world's largest seed producer. It controls much of the world's food supply. Its history reflects irresponsible behavior.

It includes pressuring and bribing federal officials, highjacking regulatory agencies, suppressing negative product information, threatening scientists and journalists daring to report them, and requiring buyers not to use its seeds for independent research.

Other seed producers operate the same way. They do so recklessly and lawlessly. They want total control. They get away with it because no one stops them.

Genetic manipulation is fraught with dangers. It's done by inserting a single gene from a species' DNA to another unnaturally. According to Smith:

"A pig can mate with a pig, and a tomato can mate with a tomato. But there is no way that a pig can mate with a tomato and vice versa."

Doing so transfers genes across natural barriers. They separated species over millions of evolutionary years. They did so successfully.

Agribusiness officials want people to believe they can do nature one better. They claim genetic engineering replicates or involves a superior alternative to natural breeding.

Japan's Showa Denko genetically engineered it. It did so in the late 1980s. Many dozens died. Over 1,500 were crippled. Up to 10,000 got Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome (EMS). It's an incurable blood disorder.

It causes permanent nerve and muscle tissue scarring, as well as fibrosis, inflammation, and permanent immune system change.

Agribusiness officials ignore public safety. They want GMO foods and ingredients unlabeled. They want consumers unaware of what they're ingesting.

They oppose laws regulating or banning GMO products. They call doing so "unfair trade practices." They've got governments on their side. They let these products be grown internally or imported.

Profits matter more than human health. It's threatened because federal officials and regulatory agencies do nothing to protect it.

New York Times editors are dismissive. On March 14, they headlined "Why Label Genetically Engineered Food?"

Whole Foods Market "caused a stir," they said. On March 8, company officials said all GMO products in its North American stores must be labeled. Producers have until 2018 to comply. Why that long wasn't explained.

Times editors expressed concern, saying:

"Any private company has the right to require its suppliers to meet labeling standards it chooses to set, and consumers have a right to know what’s in the food they are buying."

"But there is no reliable evidence that genetically modified foods now on the market pose any risk to consumers."

"The Food and Drug Administration says it has no basis for concluding that foods developed by bioengineering techniques present different or greater safety concerns than foods developed by traditional plant breeding."